Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

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      1 year ago

      Its true intended purpose was online file storage, a full 300MB for free, which was gigantic at the time.

      I had an account there before it died, then Tom bought the domain and made it a social network.

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      1 year ago

      Both halves of that comment are incorrect. It wasn’t originally for posting music, it was an improvement of the concept of social networking that started as an alternative to Friendster.

      The music stuff didn’t come until years later, and they never had anything you could consider a success in that department, especially after they deleted every song artists had previously posted to the site.

      Also, just going in the website right now, that’s not the bands posting those articles. That’s not even people posting news on MySpace. It is literally just aggregating music news from other websites.

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      Didn’t the whole site shut down? IIRC, everyone who had a MySpace page lost it a few years ago.